Spawn a background process in Ruby on Windows?

ruby windows fork background-process
David Rivers picture David Rivers · Oct 1, 2010 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

I am basically asking the same question as Spawn a background process in Ruby, except I need to spawn a background process in a Windows environment! Unfortunately, my research has revealed that Windows doesn't support Ruby forks (only spoons. Rimshot!).

Answer

Charles Roper picture Charles Roper · Oct 1, 2010

The win32-process library, part of the Win32Utils suite, is probably what you're after.

http://win32utils.rubyforge.org/

The win32-process library adds the Process.create and Process.fork methods for MS Windows. In add addition, it provides different implementations of the wait, wait2, waitpid, and waitpid2 methods. The Process.create method allows you to create native MS Windows processes using a variety of different configuration options.

The Process.fork implementation should be considered experimental and not used in production code.

Installation: gem install win32-process

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